She went on to add: "I mean, everything is referenced, but when you read Just Kids by Patti Smith, there's idol worship towards poets or Jim Morrison or whoever, but it seems to be processed through her filter and it ends up becoming very Patti Smith. That's different from just picking what you like from what other people do and presenting it as your own."

Speaking about the band's forthcoming new album 'Mosquito', meanwhile, and its differences to their previous LP 'It's Blitz!', she stated: "'It's Blitz!'was so clean and cold in a way. It was precise and electronic. I personally wanted to something a bit more quirky, a bit more sexual, a bit more visceral."

Yeah Yeah Yeahs will release 'Mosquito' on April 15, but the album is already streaming in full on YouTube. O has described the album as being "like a Yeah Yeah Yeahs soul record - our version of one" and as "really playful and tongue in cheek at times. I think its got something for everyone".

They will also curate I'll Be Your Mirror at London's Alexandra Palace alongside Grizzly Bear over the weekend of May 4-5. Bands confirmed for the event so far include The Walkmen, Black Lips, Real Estate, Dirty Beaches and Cass McCombs.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are this week's NME cover stars - read the full interview with the band, in which they talk about new album 'Mosquito' and how they survived 10 years of rock'n'roll drama, in the current issue of NME, on newsstands now or available digitally.